National Action Party Jalisco

National Action Party Jalisco is a Mexican political party. It was founded in Jalisco in 1939 by Efrain Gonzalez Luna, as part of the National Action Party founded the same year in Mexico City.

The Party is organised in district, municipal and state committees. Formerly, when the PRI ruled over Mexico as a dominant party, like the axis of the Mexican political scheme, the PAN JALISCO was a truly opposition party, conformed by independent professionals such like physicians, dentists, lawyers, accountants and small businesspeople. It had a unique democratic system to vote for party officials and leaders, as well of choosing the right candidates for general and midterm elections.

As of 2008, it is the main political party of Jalisco (a Western Mexico State): it controls politics in the State as it has won most of political spaces in public elections since 1995. Currently the State Governor, city majors of the capital area (Guadalajara, Zapopan, Tonala and Tlaquepaque) and the majority of Congressmen come from this party.

History

In 1995, the party was described as a great challenge in Jalisco to the rule of President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon. ^[1]

After few years of finally gaining the main post of the state of Jalisco, the Governorship to Alberto Cardenas in 1995 ^[2] , the party began to lose some of its democratic credentials. In fact, with more elections won, most of newcomers within time won spaces in municipal administrations, Congress and even jobs in the State Governmental bodies.

References

1. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/13/world/mexico-s-ruling-party-faces-strong-challenge-in-state-election.html
2. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/14/world/governing-party-in-mexico-suffers-big-state-defeat.html

Sources

• Panjal
• Web citation
• Punto Porpunto
• La Jornada
• Mural